Tag: Egypt in the Middle Ages

Posts about Egypt during the Middle Ages, including the Byzantine, Fatimid and Mamluk periods.

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The Cairo Geniza and Medieval Global Trade

To what extent is global trade a new phenomenon? Documents from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of manuscripts from a medieval Egyptian synagogue, hold answers to this question, even if getting at them requires knowledge of multiple semitic languages, skill in paleography and bookkeeping worthy of medieval long-distance traders themselves.